Fraternity to rent out its house

TKE to occupy SAE building after its current lease runs out

10:58 PM,
Nov. 28, 2012

Sigma Alpha Epsilon's UI chapter was ordered to shut down in September and UI's Tau Kappa Epsilon Lambda-Eta chapter is preparing to sign a lease on the SAE house, 302 Ridgeland Ave., which it would rent from SAE.

Written by

Tara Bannow
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

Fraternity houses on the University of Iowa campus can be a bit like musical chairs - when one chapter moves out, another moves in.

That's what's happening with the house that formerly was Sigma Alpha Epsilon's UI chapter, which was ordered to shut down in September and was investigated in an alleged sexual assault. The university's Tau Kappa Epsilon Lambda-Eta chapter is preparing to sign a lease on the former SAE house at 302 Ridgeland Ave., which it would rent from SAE.

It's common for fraternities that are removed from campus to retain ownership of their houses and rent them out to other ...